The module2 of the survey on the perception of risk and benefit from energy technologies in India.
Following is the complete data set with 1099 responses.
Following graph show the distribution of perceived risk on the likert scale
Following graph show the distribution of perceived benefit on the likert scale
Now I am converting the likert scale for various scales used in the survey to numeric values from 1 to 5, Rather Not Say/Don’t know is printed as NA. Some variables had to be reverse coded as well.
Following table shows the summary statistics of perceived risk from different energy technologies.
Following table shows the summary statistics of perceived benefit from different energy technologies.
bar plots for means of perceived risk and benefit from various energy technologies
bar plots for median of perceived risk and benefit from various energy technologies
Conducted PCA on all independent variables in the data set. The following table shows the variables that are part of the resultant principal components.
Following tibble shows variance explained by each Principal component
Scree plot of the previous table. Including only till PC7
Coding and Combining items on Kahan scale
Median score for Kahan on invidualism scale
Kahan scale median score for Hierarchy scale
Calculating individualism score and hierarchy score for each respondent
scatter plot of Kahan scale scores around the median scores on Individualism and Hierarchy scales.
checking distribution of scores on Individualism scale
checking distribution of scores on Hierarchy scale
Coding and combining items on the eco-political scale - characteristics of the perceiver
PCA test on the new eco-pol scale - characteristics of the perceiver
## Importance of components:
## PC1 PC2 PC3 PC4 PC5 PC6 PC7
## Standard deviation 1.4705 1.2373 1.1700 1.0027 0.96948 0.90729 0.86862
## Proportion of Variance 0.1966 0.1392 0.1245 0.0914 0.08545 0.07483 0.06859
## Cumulative Proportion 0.1966 0.3358 0.4602 0.5516 0.63706 0.71189 0.78048
## PC8 PC9 PC10 PC11
## Standard deviation 0.83091 0.80331 0.78471 0.68059
## Proportion of Variance 0.06276 0.05866 0.05598 0.04211
## Cumulative Proportion 0.84325 0.90191 0.95789 1.00000